The non-US world really should be looking at Google, Amazon and Microsoft as analogous to Nord Stream 2.
A big one-way money and autonomy pipeline, out of your country, into another one that you don't control, that has an authoritarian political culture with strong Fascist elements, with which you are not *currently* at actual war, but.... if things went sideways, it would be able to hold your entire economy and government hostage.
Yes, US cloud services are cheap. So is Nord Stream 2 gas.
This looks like useful Product Warning material that should be prominently displayed in the Licence Agreements of all cloud services.
Especially if you don't live in the USA.
https://therecord.media/fbi-document-shows-what-data-can-be-obtained-from-encrypted-messaging-apps/
amazon-twitch, fascism, surveillance capitalism
*amazon-twitch cultivates communities of fascists for years without doing shit about it until it started getting them bad press*
amazon-twitch: if you make your viewers give their phone numbers to amazon, we promise the hate raids will stop
(-- demon dog )
Testosterone being a controlled substance should be completely unacceptable and I am so frustrated people don’t talk about it more. As it stands, my testosterone is being withheld from me for the next 3 weeks for seemingly no reason at all, the systems saying it’s “state regulations.” If I have to go off T for that long o genuinely don’t know what I’ll do, but I fear even more for the trans people who have had their hormone producing organs removed, for whom not getting testosterone is infinitely more dangerous
A den of queer poly trans vixens stuck in a human shaped meat suit.